Corey’s 2009 Year List

Just a plain old year list this year. No geographical boundaries like in 2007 or limits on form of transportation used like in 2008. I’d really like to break 400500 600 birds for the year, and, if possible, get my ABA life list up over 500 450. Lifers are in ALL CAPS. Wish me luck in 2009!

Note: I had originally intended to use some form of the ABA checklist for this year list because I was not planning to go beyond the continental United States in my year’s birding. But seeing as I ended up traveling to both Honduras and Kazakhstan (and Germany en route) that kind of messed up my listing. So, beware, this list is not organized by any particular checklist. It is, instead, a total mess that hopefully includes all the birds I’ve seen this year, and some that I have only heard (some of those heard-only birds will not make the cut to my life list). I think I’ve managed to get similar species grouped together anyway (like the hawks with the hawks, etc). Anyway, as I said above, wish me luck for the rest of 2009!